EP1,
or English through Pictures
Book I, makes use of 226 Basic words with their different forms, 15 words for numbers, two for measures, two international names, and one for American money used internationally.The Basic words are:a (an), after, again, air, all, and, animal, answer, apple, arm, at
baby, back, bad, basket, be (am are is isn't was were), before, between, bird, bit, body, boiling, bone, book, bottle, box, boy, branch, bread, breath, brother, building, but, butter
cheese, chest, chin, clear, clock, cloth (clothing), coat, cold, come (came), cord, cover, cow, crush, cup
daughter, different, do (does doing), dog, door, down, drawer, dress, drink
ear, earth, egg, eye
face, family, father, finger, flame, floor, flower, food, foot (feet), for, fork, frame, from, front, fruit
get, girl, give, glass, glove, go, goat, good
hair, hand, happy, hard, hat, have, he (him his she her it its they them their), head, heat, here, high, hook, horse, house
I (me my we us our), ice, in, instrument
keep, key, knee, knife
leaf, left, leg, light, line, liquid, lock, long, low
make, man, measure, meat, milk, money, mother, motion, mountain, mouth
name, neck, new, no, nose, not, now, number
of, off, old, on, open, or, orange, other, out, over,
page, part, person, picture, pig, pipe, plane , plant, plate, pocket, pot, potato, push, put,
question,
ready, right, room, root,
salt, same, say, seat, see, sheep, shelf (shelves), ship, shoe, short, shut, side, sister, skin, soft, solid, some, son, sort, soup, spoon, steam, stem, stocking, store, street,
table, tail, take, taste, that, the, then, there, thick, thin, thing, this, through, thumb, time, to, toe, together, tooth (teeth), tray, tree, turn,
under, up
very,
wall, warm, water, when, where, who, (which, what), will, wind, window, with, woman,
yes, you.
These words are made by joining some of Basic words:airplane, another, bookshelves, bread-box, icebox, nobody.
Words for numbers are:one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirty, forty, fifty.
Other words for measures are:
inch, yard. (
You will see, among the Basic words, "foot" and "feet.")
International names:Mr., Mrs.
The word for American money:dollar.